Death is a very serious thing of which we should never make light, whether in person, in print or on-screen — that is, unless a movie is basically a live-action cartoon filled with sweet-ass and […]
When we look back on the current season of Saturday Night Live, the year’s most successful hosts — Emma Stone, Kristen Wiig, Nate Bargatze — won’t come as much of a surprise. All of them are comedy veterans who […]
Animated movies get a bad rap. Nobody ever thinks to give, say, Oppenheimer or The Godfather the cartoon treatment, no matter how much more you can do with a horse’s head without the laws of physics to bind […]
When you think about it, it’s pretty weird that movies are divided by age into only three categories: the first 10 years of life, the next 10 and all the rest of it. There’s a much […]
On Saturday Night Live’s 40th anniversary show, Andy Samberg and Adam Sandler did a musical tribute to laughing during comedy sketches. “That’s When You Break” conceded that virtually every cast member (well, maybe not Phil Hartman) lost […]
Second City and National Lampoon stage veteran Harold Ramis was an obvious choice to help script the first Lampoon movie. While co-writers Doug Kenney and Chris Miller had writing chops from their years working for the counterculture humor magazine, […]
Hundreds of movies are released every year. If you tried to remember them all, you might forget more important things, like your children’s names or the lyrics of “Return of the Mack.” That’s why so many even […]
Animal Control, as its name suggests, frequently features guest-starring roles by various winged or furry creatures, and last night’s was no exception. But the chicken who escapes from a medical treatment Patel (Ravi Patel) and […]
It’s cute when celebrities cameo on your favorite sitcoms — Marisa Tomei flirted with George on Seinfeld! Bryan Cranston stopped by It’s Always Sunny! Sheldon meets William Shatner on Big Bang Theory! But while it’s fun to […]
When they’re not campaigning, governing or bureaucracy-ing, government agencies and entities can be pretty darn funny. 15 The Pennsylvania Treasury Walked So That Other Boring Government Agencies Could Run 14 Here’s How New Jersey Mourned the […]
To improvise in any art form, says Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz, you need to learn the basics. “It’s like knowing how to play traditional jazz before you learn how to play bop,” he explained in And Here’s […]
Comedy is really the only genre of movie that can still be enjoyable when it’s really dumb. After all, a sufficiently bad drama or action movie just becomes a comedy, but a stupid joke can be […]
These jokes will make you yell “booyah!” or your money back. 14 Tommy Boy (1995) Tommy: I can get a good look at a T-bone by sticking my head up a bull’s ass, but I’d rather take […]
You’d think that convincing people to eat food, something that’s fully necessary for continued existence, would be a pretty easy task. All you really have to do is make your particular product look delicious, and […]
It seems like no one in Hollywood wants to take risks anymore. Gone are the days when a visionary auteur could score a sleeper hit with a weird little indie film — we only let people do […]
Chris Farley’s first sketch as Matt Foley has long been Saturday Night Live legend, probably the first clip shown in any Farley retrospective. Part of the hilarity is thanks to the inability of Christina Applegate and David […]
Most movies get one shot at a theatrical run and either become blockbusters or sink into the imaginary vault in every producer’s heart where their failures live. They might be rediscovered in some far-flung corner of Netflix, […]
“Our parents told us not to get into cars with strangers, and not to go meet strangers from the internet,” noted one famous joke from when Uber first became a thing. “Now, we get into […]
Don’t tell the critics, but it’s really not that hard to figure out if a movie is going to be good. As long as nobody gets too far up their own ass, a visionary director, competent screenwriter, […]
Did you know that visitors to this site are statistically likely to be sexier than people in general? At least, that’s the hypothesis behind the new study we’re doing. And if the study reveals anything […]